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Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Dodd is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below.
Each dot was a member of the Senate
in 2010
positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if about one third or more of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Voting Record

Key Votes

Dec 15, 2010. Motion Agreed to 81/19.
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Pub.L. 111–312, H.R. 4853, 124 Stat. 3296, enacted December 17, 2010), also known as the 2010 Tax Relief Act, was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010, and signed into ...

May 24, 2007. Motion Agreed to 80/14.
The U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, (Pub.L. 110–28, 121 Stat. 112, enacted May 25, 2007), is an emergency appropriations act passed by the 110th United States Congress that provides funding for the Iraq War through September 30, ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 1981 to Dec 2010, Dodd missed 650 of 10,588 roll call votes, which is 6.1%.
This is
much worse than
the median of 2.0%
among the lifetime records of senators serving in Dec 2010.
The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000